And this is, indeed, where I go to school; the pictures were all taken on my walk out to the car as I was coming home tonight.
(Incidentally, you probably caught the first version of the top picture while I had it up for 30 seconds or so -- the first time I resized it down to a postable size, the stars went all dim, and so I fixed that and reposted it.)
It actually took surprisingly little enhancing, really; for reference, here's the constellation as it was straight out of the camera, with no enhancements or gamma-correction or anything. (I did move the bit of tree in closer so that it would be in the picture for comparison.)
This was a 15-second exposure at F2.9 -- and, yes, the ability to manually set those was one of the reasons I picked this camera -- with the camera's ISA-equivalent set (I think) at 200, for what that's worth.
Lucky duck! I was in CA exactly once, a year ago-- at Stanford, to present a paper. I adored it. (I would miss actual weather, don't get me wrong, but I could spend a few weeks in spring there, no problem.) What I wouldn't give for a) cheap flights and b) someone who could take care of the dogs...
Goddammit, Northern California *has* weather. It also has seasons. They're just not the weather and seasons most people are used to. But they're still weather and seasons!
You know what I really like about these pictures? At four in the morning I'm so suggestible that when I look at them, I can almost actually feel a cool, moist breeze, and smell green growing things in the night...
I think I liked the "Tower on Fire" version of that one better.
::sigh:: I so miss the way the Bay Area looks. The color of the vegetation, the color and style of the buildings. I have been in Maryland since 1985 and everything still looks Not Right.
Ah, college Gothic architecture. The second picture is instant nostalgia--not for Stanford, where I've never been, but for Yale. I think I'm overlaying a bit of one of the residential colleges, but it's more the general style than "oh, that's Berkeley North Court" (but now I'm visualizing a specific bulletin board, for Ghu's sake!).
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And this is, indeed, where I go to school; the pictures were all taken on my walk out to the car as I was coming home tonight.
(Incidentally, you probably caught the first version of the top picture while I had it up for 30 seconds or so -- the first time I resized it down to a postable size, the stars went all dim, and so I fixed that and reposted it.)
stanford pix
nice pictures!
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It actually took surprisingly little enhancing, really; for reference, here's the constellation as it was straight out of the camera, with no enhancements or gamma-correction or anything. (I did move the bit of tree in closer so that it would be in the picture for comparison.)
This was a 15-second exposure at F2.9 -- and, yes, the ability to manually set those was one of the reasons I picked this camera -- with the camera's ISA-equivalent set (I think) at 200, for what that's worth.
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Slow and steady wins a free trip to California. *sigh*
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I have maintained for a long time that weather is overrated.
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Rant over now.
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Quite disconcerting, that.
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I was quite pleased with how well it turned out; I hadn't particularly been expecting it to work.
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Maybe I should take some pictures of Sweet Hall, next time I'm doing this. :)
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Here, have a green tree, then. (Also from tonight's photos.)
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::sigh:: I so miss the way the Bay Area looks. The color of the vegetation, the color and style of the buildings. I have been in Maryland since 1985 and everything still looks Not Right.
MAO
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And also why I miss working on campus.
And also, Orion is my favoritist constellation ever.
Are very nice, these.
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I really ought to go to Stanford & walk around more; it's so gorgeous.